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chapter 11

ec science

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Fresh water Water that is not salty and has little to no taste, smell or color
Salt Water water that contains dissolved salts and other materials
water cycle movement of water thru the environment of the earth
Evaporation the process in which water changes from liquid to vapor
Condensation When water vapor in the in the Atmosphere becomes a liquid
precipitation water that falls from clouds
divide a ridge or continuous line of high land from which water flows
Drainage Basin an area into which all of the water on one side of a divide flows which is a lake/pond
Turnover the rising and sinking of warm and cold layers
Iceberg mass of ice floating in the ocean only 1/8 can be seen
Eutrophication increases in nutrients lake/pond
Groundwater water that is held under ground and can still move
Permeable Substance that liquids can flow thru
Impermeable substance that liquids cannot pass thru
Water Table the top region completely filled with water
aquifer Underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that contains water
Spring flow of from ground were surface of land dips below water table
artesian well a well which water flows to the surface naturally b/t is under pressure
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